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Posted on27/07/202427/07/2024

Praag / Tsjechië bezoeken, praktisch

Ik ben zelf (als Belg) in 2017 naar Tsjechië verhuisd, en dan meerbepaald naar de hoofdstad Praag. Dat was eerst met het idee “we zien…

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Posted on24/01/201924/01/2019

Getting a 4 workspace layout in a square on Ubuntu 18.04

I really like my 4 workspaces organized in a square layout, not to say that I can’t live without. It’s handy to work and super…

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Posted on01/09/2018

Overly large menu fonts with java 10 in Ubuntu

I’m running Ubuntu 16.04. In 18.04, the default java install will become Java 10, so for an upgrade project I installed it on my machine.…

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Posted on04/09/2017

Install Belgian eID software in Ubuntu 16.04

Partially as a reminder to myself, here the steps how to get your eID working in Ubuntu (tested on 16.04, but should be working for…

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Posted on29/08/2017

Example to send an e-mail from your Java application (with or without TLS authentication)

In this post I just wanted to share a small example to send an e-mail from your Java application, using TLS authentication. You’ll need to…

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Posted on23/08/201723/08/2017

PHP7: Generate secure password based on a string of allowed characters

There are quite some easy implementations out there to generate a secure random string in PHP, most of them by encoding a binary string using…

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Posted on08/08/2017

MOSUNX USB-C to 3 Port USB 3.0 + Hub Ethernet Adapter – Cable not connected (Ubuntu 16.04)

Lately I bought a “MOSUNX Futural Digital USB C to 3 Port USB 3.0 Hub 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter” over AliExpress. It’s available under different…

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Posted on08/03/2017

DHCP and static IP on a single interface: static IP disappears

I recently migrated my Ubuntu Server to an OpenStack environment. I needed two different IP-addresses, and it seemed me wise to keep the first (primary) IP-address…

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Posted on22/02/201705/03/2017

MySQLTuner on 16.04: ERROR 1054 (42S22) at line 1: Unknown column ‘password’ in ‘where clause’

When running MysqlTuner on Ubuntu 16.04, you might see the error “ERROR 1054 (42S22) at line 1: Unknown column ‘password’ in ‘where clause’”, since Debian…

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Posted on20/01/201720/01/2017

Change LibreOffice Measurement units from inches to cm

In the default installation of LibreOffice in Ubuntu, the measurement units are set to inches in LibreOffice Writer. Even when changing the interface language, these…

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